Locality
9°94´ east longitude, 51°29´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany, Europa

Geological relevance of location
Fossil wood is found in the lignite coal mined in northern Hesse. Owing to the well-preserved wood structure, the silicified wood can be used to study paleoclimate.

Classification of the earth

Structure	petrified wood
Colour	brown
Age	Tertiary

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany